Call for Participation

Workshop On: Planning as Combinatorial Search:
Propositional, Graph-Based, and Disjunctive Planning Methods

Sunday, June 7, 1998
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

http://www.research.att.com/~kautz/aips98ws/

in conjunction with
The Fourth International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-98)

Description

Recently very efficient planning systems have been build around local search, graph search, A* search, dynamic programming, integer programming, and other general combinatorial search techniques. This workshop will examine the common threads that link these different efforts and look for new ways that mature combinatorial algorithms from different areas of computer science can be fruitfully applied to AI planning systems.

Some of the issues we will discuss include:

For more suggestions on unifying frameworks and problem encodings, see the home pages for the IJCAI-97 Challenges in Bridging Plan Synthesis Paradigms (http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/challenge.html) and Propositional Reasoning and Search (http://www.research.att.com/~kautz/challenge) respectively.

Workshop Format

The workshop will include panels, invited talks, discussions, and a few short paper presentations. We will identify several major common themes for panels and discussions based on the research statements from participants (see below), and will select people to make brief presentations on their work as part of the discussions.

Attendance and Submission Requirements

Attendance will be by invitation. If you wish to participate, submit a short statement of your research interests by email to: kautz@research.att.com

Please send plain ASCII text only.

If you have recently submitted a relevant research paper to AIPS or to another AI conference, please include a copy of the abstract. At your option, you may also include an extended abstract or unpublished paper on new work you may wish to discuss. Participants will be invited to submit a final version of their research statement and other supplementary material to be printed in the working notes.

The workshop fee will be minimal for participants attending the main conference, the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-98). See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aips98 for details. The list of invited attendees as of April 24, 1998.

Deadlines

Organizing Committee